Tried to install off of the latest snapshot (23388) and the installer fails due to missing packages in the old-releases ubuntu archive. I installed kubuntu as normal from the dvd and updated my sources.list to point to old-releases.ubuntu.com (instead of archive.ubuntu.com or security.ubuntu.com). It seems that many .deb files are missing from the old-releases mirror as even installing basic packages like emacs results in a 404 error when trying to download the package file.

I had the same issue recently for libtcltk-ruby1.8 (http://forum.linuxmce.org/index.php?topic=10903.0). I determined that universe for both intrepid-updates and intrepid-security referenced a non-existent file. My work around was to remove universe from both lines in /etc/apt/sources.list and then do the install at which point an older version of the libtcltk-ruby1.8 package was successfully installed.

Changed archive.ubuntu.com to old-releases.ubuntu.com and commented out entries for universe, multiverse and security. This allowed me to install successfully, but some packages (like emacs) still don't install and plugging in my GC100 results in a popup during the pnp configuration stating "failed to install socat"... I'm guessing that this is probably because I no longer have universe/multiverse but I am not sure what logfile to look in to confirm.

Changed archive.ubuntu.com to old-releases.ubuntu.com and commented out entries for universe, multiverse and security. This allowed me to install successfully, but some packages (like emacs) still don't install and plugging in my GC100 results in a popup during the pnp configuration stating "failed to install socat"... I'm guessing that this is probably because I no longer have universe/multiverse but I am not sure what logfile to look in to confirm.

Could you post your new sources.list file that worked. coming from a new install i basically can't get anything.

Unfortunately the sources.list that I used to install has been written over. To get the installer to work I modified my sources.list and changed all references from "us.archive.ubuntu.com" into "old-releases.ubuntu.com". I then commented out all of the lines containing "universe", "multiverse" or "security".

I got the gc100 to install correctly including socat by re-adding a reference to old-releases.ubuntu.com universe. ConfirmDependencies.log only said "01 Error processing package socat" -- is there a way to turn up the logging verbosity globally to help debug?

Also -- My sources.list that I used to install appears to have been written over. Along with this, another reference has been added to archive.ubuntu.com which results in a 404. I believe the ConfirmDependencies program does this (http://wiki.linuxmce.org/index.php/Confirmdependencies) but I have not had time to dive into the code to verify where the old references are coming from.

The old references are indeed being added by ConfirmDependecies... It relies on information from the Package* tables in the pluto_main database to know where to source all the packages from and automatically add the repository locations if they are not in the sources.list. It's a great system, until the repository moves en mass. To fix this it would have to be updated for all packages in the database that are sourced from intrepid. It's more or less a search and replace on a few select fields in the database and then a massive sqlCVS update to apply the changes. I'm not sure that this is likely to happen. Any references to 20dev_ubuntu in sources.list are also being added by ConfirmDependencies based on repository information in the database.

This is all normal behaviour but the database is populated with incorrect data at this point.